Tag: unemployment

High schools fail to prepare students for the real world

There’s a common stereotype that carries an underlying horrible truth with many university students. Hundreds of thousands of people in Ontario come out of three to four years of university with an undergraduate degree each year, only to find there are no jobs in their field of study. You know the...

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Poloz's advice half-baked

Stephen Poloz’s recent comments about unpaid work were valid but ill-advised. The Bank of Canada governor said last week that when youth ask him for career advice, he advises them to seek out unpaid work if that’s all that’s available. “If your parents are letting you live in the basement, you might...

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Student initiative needed

Universities can offer as many career resources as they want, but it doesn’t matter if students aren’t taking their own initiative. A recent study found that Ontario university graduates are increasingly jobless, with employment rates far lower than before the late-2000s recession. Humanities graduates...

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